http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/21/us/police-shoot-deaf-man-oklahoma-city-trnd/index.html One of the two cops had a taser and used it while the deaf guy was still 15 feet away, 'armed' with a metal pipe. Why did the other cop feel the need to shoot? Inb4 'wait for the facts' crowd to defend this idiot.
Why do you have armed in scare quotes. It isn't like the guy was a plumber and was replacing some sprinkler piping, the pipe was wrapped with some sort of wrapping and had a wrist loop. It's a tragic situation, because it doesn't seem like the guy was actually a threat and instead just couldn't hear them telling him to drop the pipe. Probably no criminal culpability for the officer though.
I say 'armed' because he was 15 feet away and it was a freaking pipe. If he was closer, then I could see the justification. 15 feet away and the taser should have been enough.
